Example sentences of "[coord] that it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But they do not prove that NICRA was a front for the preparation of such a campaign or that it was reasonable or wise to treat it as such . |
| 2 | your employer has broken your contract ; and 2. that action was so fundamental as to justify your ending the contract ( or that it was ‘ the last straw ’ ) ; and that |
| 3 | They denied that TM was addictive or produced ‘ spiritual trips ’ , or that it was viewed as a way of saving themselves by their own efforts . |
| 4 | The House of Lords did not decide either that it was , or that it was not . |
| 5 | I can hardly suppose that she sat for you or that it was commissioned . ‘ |
| 6 | For the purposes of mens rea or the mental state of the accused , where his awareness is impaired by intoxicants he shall be taken to be aware of that which he would have been aware if not intoxicated , unless he shows either that his intoxication was not self-induced or that it was caused solely by the taking or administration of a substance in the course of medical treatment ( Section 6(5) ) . |
| 7 | It seems more likely that the knot symbolized the bond between the communicant and the deity , or that it was an attempt to bind the deity by magic , which is much the same thing . |
| 8 | But I have tried to talk to him , to persuade him to say that he thought the askaris were going to shoot him or that it was a misunderstanding , but he refuse absolutely to excuse himself . ’ |
| 9 | A novelist can be even more helpful by saying that the phrase in question was spoken waggishly , or grimly , or that it was snapped out as the character turned angrily on his heel . |
| 10 | Bromley London Borough Council sought certiorari to quash the supplementary rate , arguing that it was either beyond the powers of the G.L.C. under the 1969 Act , or that it was an invalid exercise of discretion under that legislation . |
| 11 | Eliot 's writings on poetry do not contain a systematic theory , but on two matters of principle he adopted a stance strongly opposed to that of Richards : he refused to accept either that poetry consisted in the use of emotive language , or that it was simply a vehicle for communicating the author 's experience to the reader . |
| 12 | I would stake my life on it , ’ will not be able to claim either that it was a mere trader 's puff or that it was a mere statement of opinion . |
| 13 | Ltd. v. United Dominions Trust Ltd. ( 1988 C.A. ) the buyer had discovered that the car had a leak but did not discover until after the contract the gravity of the leak or that it was incurable . |
| 14 | He admits that he took the vehicle , but says that it was already damaged when he got in or that it was not damaged when he left the scene and that it must have been damaged by someone who took it later . |
| 15 | The FMLN denied government claims that it was refusing to withdraw its forces to appointed territories , that it had under-reported its arms and troop inventories , or that it was encouraging land occupations and was planning to establish agrarian settlements in a disputed border area with Honduras . |
| 16 | Stradling writes , " Until comparatively recently the prevailing view on political education in England was either that it was already adequately taken care of through History , Geography , Social or General Studies or that it was a wholly unsuitable subject for the school curriculum . " |
| 17 | As Lord Devlin has explained : " … you can not escape liability for defamation by putting the libel behind a prefix such as " I have been told that … " " or " it is rumoured that … " " , and then asserting that it was true that you had been told or that it was in fact being rumoured … |
| 18 | No proof is available that the incident was designed to produce such a backlash nor that it was masterminded by an element within the government 's undercover set-up . |
| 19 | That is not to say that his power and influence was actually greater than that of the Ostrogothic king Theodoric , nor that it was inevitable that the Franks would permanently eclipse the Burgundians in Gaul . |
| 20 | I think all of us wish this epidemic would go away , and that it would n't touch us and that it were only small numbers , but the news today clearly shows that it affects each and every one of us . |
| 21 | My horror at the fact that it was not unpleasant , that I was almost enjoying it , and that it was killing me . |
| 22 | Only the walls heard this delirious talk , but I was suddenly seized by a guilty fear , and became convinced that the two children were taking it in and that it was ringing in Aisha 's ears at work , and I rushed to pack my suitcase before she came back . |
| 23 | Boris Becker recently expressed the view that there was too much money in tennis and that it was ruining the game — a view of course that it is much easier to make objectively once you have £5m in the bank . |
| 24 | The basic assumption of this form of life , extending from school to university , was that imaginative literature was inherently valuable , and that it was valuable because it pleasurably conveyed emotion and profound insights into the life of things . |
| 25 | Leavis was a major critic and a very influential educator , who was convinced both that criticism was essentially evaluative and that it was at the heart of English studies . |
| 26 | The press notice showed different things — that output was growing , that it was standing still and that it was falling . |
| 27 | Mr Justice Jowitt told Anderson : ‘ I accept that you were not on the prowl looking for a victim and that it was by chance that this young lady got into your car . |
| 28 | At the same time a large majority of voters thought that the press was biased , and that it was biased towards the Conservatives , against Labour , and against the Alliance . |
| 29 | He said that he thought it wrong to encourage a military spirit , and that it was contrary to the ideals of disarmament . |
| 30 | They insisted that the massacre was China 's internal affair , that China had done nothing to harm the United States ' interests , and that it was up to the US to take the initiative in repairing relations . |